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Yes. Yesterday was a true miracle. Her day to day commitment to the Lord and His direction even when she was feeling confused about her direction and calling has allowed this miracle to come to fruition. What astounded me most from start to finish was how strongly she was directed here. She trusted that guidance and continued throughout it all to ask for protection, guidance and direction. She had no idea where she was being led or what the outcome would be but she trusted each new leading and step with strong action and faith. Bless her.

She has become a great role model and also a great reminder for others to rely upon the Lord God in all things through fear, through confusion, through a clear mission with a heavy, profound weight. Her actions have far transcended the circumstance and God has used her thus and I am so very, very grateful.

Thank you joanie for this post. It makes me cry in astonishment at God's power and leading the more I read and get to know all that went on for her surrounding her actions that day and her personal life proceeding (the third day of a fast specifically in regards to her direction!). Wow. Continue to bless her Lord and Jeanne if you happen to be one of us . . . thank you.

Well stated! John 15:13 says, "Greater love has no one than this, that he (she) lay down his life for his (her) friends." Although, thankfully, she survived the attack, she was willing to die to save her friends. What a courageous young woman! I have no doubt that her days of praying and fasting, though making her physically weak, strengthened her spiritually to acconplish the task that God had assigned to her.

She has become a great role model and also a great reminder for others to rely upon the Lord God in all things through fear, through confusion, through a clear mission with a heavy, profound weight. Her actions have far transcended the circumstance and God has used her thus and I am so very, very grateful.

Well said! And therein lies the worst kind of negligence perpetrated my the mainstream media, and our 'education' system.

We live in a time when many of our young people -- especially, but not only, in our inner cities -- are lacking in direction and commmitment to anything meaningful.

Their hearing or seeing the specific particulars of Assam's story on television or radio, or reading about it in a future textbook or other classroom assignment, might provide them a glimmer of what life is all about, and a epiphany-type recognition of the fabric from which a genuine 'legacy' is crafted, even if unintentionally.

But Assam's heroism is destined to be virtually ignored by those unelected tyrants who have the power to use it for honest, and positive, good.

Why will her story be ignored? Because it involved the powerful and entirely legal use by a citizen of her Second Amendment rights, and because, after doing so, she stood as a faithful and powerful witness to the effect that the Lord's goodness and grace can have in a life that has been turned over to Him.

~ joanie